Manage Hadoop clusters in HDInsight using the Azure portal

I was following up on a Microsoft Azure blog post revealing a new customer preview – Spark for Azure HDInsight.  This was very interesting to me and I wanted to check it out.  As a Microsoft Partner, I have access to Azure as on of the many benefits.  After completing the cluster installation, I found the below article by Jonathan Gao at GitHub very helpful with the initial configuration.  He made configuring the Hadoop clusters, easy to complete.  I was also able to learn something new about managing my account as well.

For additional information, try reviewing these other resources.

• Overview of Apache Spark for Azure HDInsight
• Apache Spark website
• Doing interactive data analysis with Spark